Kitchener Panthers are homeless

With the recent rainy weather in the region has made playing baseball a bit of a struggle. Yet, that’s the least of the worries for the Kitchener Panthers. They’re getting ready for their 93rd year in the Inter County Baseball League, they’re the only original team left, but now they’re without a home.

Jack Couch Park is in need of some serious work. The home-team dressing room isn’t usable, the visitors dressing room needs repairs and Centennial Park, where they get all their electricity for the lights, and the brand new scoreboard, is boarded up and no one is allowed inside.

The Panthers were supposed to have their home-and-season opener on Sunday against the London Majors – the team that eliminated them from the first round of the playoffs last year in seven games – but it’s already been cancelled.

The Panthers President Bill Pegg tells 570 News that the team is now waiting on the city to move the switching apparatus and the light standards to Jack Couch so they can have lights to play baseball.  

The team and the league needs to know by the weekend whether or not the stadium will be ready for their next home game – which will then be their home opener – on Sunday, May 15th against the Ottawa Fat Cats at two o’clock.

The Panthers will start the season on the road with games in Toronto against the Maple Leafs on Wednesday, and in Brantford against the Red Sox on Saturday. 

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